Great scientific ideas that changed the world
By: Steven L. Goldman
Contributors: Teaching Company
Series: Great courses. Science & mathematics; Great courses (DVD)
Publisher: Teaching Co.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Chantilly, VA
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 18
ISBN-13: 9781598033045; 9781598033052
Subjects: Science; Discoveries in science; Technology; History
Description: Presents 36 lectures discussing the evolving relationship of science with society during the 20th century.
Notes: Contains 36 lectures issued in 3 parts; each part has 2 videodiscs with 6 lectures per videodisc; each lecture is ca. 30 min.

In 3 containers, 26 x 19 x 4 cm.

Lecturer: Professor Steven L. Goldman, Lehigh University.

DVD.
Table of contents: title: Part 1.; title: Knowledge, know-how, and social change --; title: Writing makes science possible --; title: Inventing reason and knowledge --; title: The birth of natural science --; title: Mathematics as the order of nature --; title: The birth of techno-science --; title: Universities relaunch the idea of knowledge --; title: The medieval revolution in know-how --; title: Progress enters into history --; title: The printed book : Gutenberg to Galileo --; title: Renaissance painting and techno-science --; title: Copernicus moves the Earth.; title: Part 2.; title: The birth of modern science --; title: Algebra, calculus, and probability --; title: Conservation and symmetry --; title: Instruments as extensions of the mind --; title: Time, change , and novelty --; title: The atomic theory of matter --; title: The cell theory of life --; title: The germ theory of disease --; title: The gene theory of inheritance --; title: Energy challenges matter --; title: Fields : the immaterial become real --; title: Relationships become physical.; title: Part 3.; title: Evolution as process science --; title: Statistical laws challenge determinism --; title: Techno-science comes of age --; title: Institutions empower innovation --; title: The quantum revolution --; title: Relativity redefines space and time --; title: Reconceiving the universe, again --; title: The idea behind the computer --; title: Three faces of information --; title: Systems, chaos, and self-organization --; title: Life as molecules in action --; title: Great ideas, past and future.